iSticker Studio vs Anime Now
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iSticker Studio
Create personalized stickers for iMessage and FaceTime. Easily design custom stickers using your photos, adding text and filters to express yourself. Make your conversations more fun and unique with your own creations.
- Create custom stickers
- Use photos from camera roll
- Add text and filters
- Zoom and crop tools
- Save and send stickers
- iMessage and FaceTime integration
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iSticker Studio lives right inside Messages: make your own stickers from any photo, Live Photo, video, text or emoji – and send them without leaving the conversation. GOOD TO KNOW iSticker Studio is an iMessage app. You find it in Messages: tap + next to the text field, then iSticker Studio. It has no icon on the Home Screen. CUT OUT ANYTHING • Pick a photo and the subject pops right out, fully on your device • Several people or pets in one shot? Choose who makes it onto the sticker • Or go round: circle, rounded or the whole photo THE REAL STICKER LOOK • White outline in four strengths – or any color you like • Soft drop shadow • Meme-style captions in seven bold fonts MAKE IT MOVE • Live Photos and videos become animated stickers • Every frame is cut out, with boomerang and speed controls • Automatically sized to fit Messages SIX WAYS TO CREATE • Photo and camera • Live Photo and video • Text stickers with bold outlines • Emoji and Genmoji • Doodles with Apple Pencil or your finger MADE FOR MESSAGES • A new sticker lands straight in your message, ready to send • Tap a sticker to send it, or touch and hold to peel it onto a bubble • Packs with covers, move and delete in bulk • Copy a sticker and paste it into any other app PRO Free: unlimited photo, text, emoji and drawing stickers, three packs and three animated stickers. Pro is a one-time purchase – no subscription – and unlocks unlimited animated stickers and unlimited packs. Bought Pro in an earlier version? It is still yours: tap Restore Purchases. Your photos and stickers stay on your device – cutouts are made on-device. Made in Switzerland by treeinspired.
Anime Now
Express your emotions with a vast library of anime stickers. Send them in messages, add them to photos, or place them anywhere in your chat. Make conversations more engaging and fun with these expressive visual aids.
- Send stickers to friends
- Add stickers to photos
- Place stickers anywhere in chat
- Scale stickers as desired
- Use entire sticker library freely
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Amazing anime packs with many stickers to express your emotions and make you happier! Use the entire sticker library as many times as you want, whenever you want and always find the right sticker to share with family and friends. Stick them on your message, stick them on friend's message. Less talk, more stickers. - SEND stickers to friends - ADD to photos - PLACE anywhere in chat - SCALE how you want ----------------------------------------------- To start using stickers: Step 1: Open a message and tap ">" button to the left to the text box Step 2: Tap the app button that appears and then tap the button that looks like boy in the lower left. Step 3: Tap Anime Collection icon to start sending stickers ----------------------------------------------- Tips & tricks in sending stickers: * Tap to send sticker as emoji * Touch and hold to 'peel off' the sticker. Then, move it around to stick them on top of speech bubbles, other stickers or photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Anime Now at 2.8 against iSticker Studio's 2.0. Anime Now also leads on iOS requirement (10.3 vs 17.0). iSticker Studio's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. iSticker Studio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Anime Now sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Anime Now holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 4% of iSticker Studio's written reviews are positive against 7% of Anime Now's.
iSticker Studio ships an update every 9 days, Anime Now every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iSticker Studio | Anime Now |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (23 ratings) | 2.8 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.2% of reviews | 7.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | treeinspired GmbH | Mereke Zhanadil |
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iSticker Studio
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In-app purchases
iSticker Studio
- iSticker Studio Pro$0.99
Anime Now
- Stickers Pack 1$0.99
- Stickers Pack 2$0.99
- Stickers Pack 3$0.99
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- Stickers Pack 4$0.99
- Stickers Pack 5$0.99
- Stickers Pack 6$0.99
- Stickers Pack 8$0.99
- Stickers Pack 11$0.99
- Stickers Pack 12$0.99
- Stickers Pack 15$0.99
- Premium$8.99
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